Note: I will call the city Canakkale, but it is pronounced chan-i-KAH-le. The first “c” has a cedilla. If you don’t know what a cedilla is, it is a caterpillar-like monster killed by Rodan.
Posts Tagged ‘Transit’
04/28/98: Transit: Istanbul to Canakkale
January 27th, 2009 
Turkiye 05/01/98: Transit: Canakkale to Bergamo
January 27th, 2009 Turkiye I don’t know if it is Turkish beds, the fact I am doing more in a day, or what. At home I am not a good sleeper. I wake up in the night and cannot get back to sleep. I wake up at 5am. Who knows what all. I had no jetlag coming to Turkey [...]
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Tags: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Atlantic Ocean, Bergamo, Canakkale, Gallipoli, Japanese guest, Philatarus, Seleucus, Transit, Turkish beds, Turkish labor 
No Comments »05/02/98: Bergamo sites; Transit to Salihli
January 27th, 2009 Turkiye This was the first night I had some problem sleeping. I woke up about 2:30 and started wondering is there more I could be doing to fight the cold. As I lay there Evelyn got up and started putting on clothing to warm up because the room really was cold. That seemed like a good [...]
05/07/98: Transit Pamukale to Konya
January 26th, 2009 Turkiye Now we are well into the second half of the trip. I still have not finished my log from May 5. Luckily we have a seven-hour bus ride. Peter was commenting on one of the advantages of my palmtop while we were riding on very bumpy roads yesterday. It would be impossible to hand-write a [...]
05/09/98: Transit: Konya to Goreme
January 26th, 2009 Turkiye I almost slept through the 4:40 call to prayer. Almost. If there is such a thing as aural chaos, it is having three mosques next to each other.
Well we were awake at 7 and the bus leaves at 9. If there are problems getting to the bus terminal, which I doubt, best to get them [...]
Posted in Travelogue Tags: Ayran, Canakkale, Crazy American, Flintstone Travel, Goreme, Honey, Konya, Otogar, The Cappadocian Fathers, the chimney, the Flintstones Hotel, Transit, Turkish Delight, Yogurt No Comments »
